All 32 Uses of

Judaism
in
Call It Sleep

The most volatile races, such as the Italians, often danced for joy, whirled each other around, pirouetted in an ecstasy: Swedes sometimes just looked at each other, breathing through open mouths like a panting dog; Jews wept, jabbered, almost put each other's eyes out with the recklessness of their darting gestures; Poles roared and gripped each other at arm's length as though they meant to tear a handful of flesh; and after one pecking kiss, the English might be seen gravitating toward, but never achieving an embrace.†
Book Prol.

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

Well, you wouldn't-you were a good Jewish daughter.†
Book 1 *

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

If Jews were let in, surely no one would bar the Slovaks.†
Book 1

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

He wasn't Jewish.†
Book 1

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

So much did they benefit Lagronow that Jews;, merchants, in other villages also left a burning candle here or there.†
Book 1

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

He had a mustache and was in the Jewish paper his mother bought.†
Book 1

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

Behold, my lips are unclean and I live in a land unclean-for the Jews at that time were sinful—" —Clean?†
Book 3

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

An' because id's a Jewish noospaper wid Jewish on id, dat's two sins.†
Book 3

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

And now by housewives shrilled, and now by peddlars bellowed, and now muttered by aged Jews with blunt or cloven beards, out of windows, out of doorways, from sidewalks, from gutters, up, down and across, the greeting flew"A guten yuntif!"†
Book 3

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

When Leo had asked him whether Jews wore amulets on their persons, David had described the 'Tzitzos" that some Jewish boys wore under their shirts, and the "Tfilin", the little leather boxes, he had seen men strap around their arms and brows in the synagogue-had described them, hoping that Leo would laugh.†
Book 4

When Leo had asked him whether Jews wore amulets on their persons, David had described the 'Tzitzos" that some Jewish boys wore under their shirts, and the "Tfilin", the little leather boxes, he had seen men strap around their arms and brows in the synagogue-had described them, hoping that Leo would laugh.†
Book 4

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

And even when Leo had said of the "Mezuzeh", the little metal-covered scroll that all Jews tacked on the door-posts above their thresholds—"Oh!†
Book 4

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

He had felt a slight qualm of guilt, yes, guilt because he was betraying all the Jews in his house who had Mezuzehs above their doors; but if Leo thought it was funny, then it was funny and it didn't matter.†
Book 4

He had even added lamely that the only thing Jews wore around their necks were camphor balls against measles, merely to hear the intoxicating sound of Leo's derisive laugh.†
Book 4

Nor were goyish kitchens so different from Jewish ones.†
Book 4

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

Jews can't.†
Book 4

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

My modder, she says it— on'y id's Jewish.†
Book 4

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

An dat ain' a dish, neider," pointing to the figure on the cross, "dat's his crown o' t'orns-sharper'n pins wot de Jews stuck on him."†
Book 4

Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)

Dem Jewish woids I ast yuh on de hitch?†
Book 4

Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture

Above the muttering of the old grey-bearded Jewish pedlar (he rocked his baby carriage on which pretzels lay stacked like quoits on the upright sticks) "Founder of the universe, why have you tethered me to this machine?†
Book 4

Definition:

the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud

The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.